Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-06
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preparatory TO marrying Miss Mamie Patty.
when he complained Of Il pain IN his right
arm, called for water and then almost I'm me-
diately died.
RICHARD II. DANA went to sea on account
Of trouble WI h his eyes. He returned cured
and wrote 1.-TWO Years Before the Mast" out
OF HIS experience. He received less than
$1,000 for the story and the publishers made
more than $50, 00O.
PIoUs young lazy in Louisville has just
been fatally burned while at prayer. Tue
room being cold she kneeled by the fire anc
her clothing became ignIted and was in
names before she realized it. Her gracelesi
companions escaped unharmed.
THE house in which jefferson Davis live;
at BeauYor Is a spacious square shaped
woode n structure, encrrcled by broad-cov-
cred veranda. with fne view of the gulf
Tue grounds In the vicinity are covered with
magnollas aud live oaks. whose unfadlne
green lends d charm to the place.
JOSEPH O'BRIEH, of Cleveland, says that
he once examined swallows nest, in which
were two yonng birds. Around the leg OF
one Of them horse hair had been closely
wound, Mr.. O'Brien removed the hair and
round that the leg had been broken. He thinks
that Lnls was genuine case OF bird surgery.
WHEN farmer in Washington county. Ill ,
the other day went into a smoke house which
surprised TO find about fifteen bushels of
wheat piled up in one corner. 1t had been
brought there by rats from the bin OF a neigh
boring farmer, whose wheat was fifteen
bushels short.
HOWARD HOLMES and Ella Tucker were re-
Gently married near Terre Haute, Ind. They
are first cousins, and IN Indiana sucn mar
riage is illegal, and the person performing
the ceremony may be fined 500. Elias par
va FOL hfA,. lou md In
VIII bring suit to get his wife back. and the
justice who married them ls trying to prove
that he didn't know their relationship.
TIE Duke of Leinster. whose death took
place last week at Carton, near Maynooth,
was the most popular nobleman in Ireland.
He was kindly and unassuming man, being
Distinct exception to that curious rule by
which the majority of dukes bear such strong
resemblance to pOmpous family Outlers. In
deed, to most of the rules regarding his class
he was a distinct exception; he spent the
greater part OF his time in Ireland, and de-
voted himself, according to his light, to pro-
noting the welfare Of his country and his
countrymen.
THE Yale News has inquired of the acad-
emic and the scientific freshmen what the
occupations of their fathers are, and the
answers show that merchants, lawyers
physicians and laborers send the greater per
cent, TO the academic department, while
genera business men, manufacturers, bank
ers, cler9ymen, teachers and mechanics favor
the scientific school. The preference given
10 the scientific school by clergymen and
teachers, men who have received q classical
education, is especially noticeable and would
seem to augur well for the future Of the
school,"
ANDREW LANG. to whom Rider Haggard's
she" is dedicated. prefaces a signed review
in the Academy very aptly with these words
There are stories which, like the murder
applauded by Toad-iu-the Hole, you can
safely recommend TO friend One would
need TO know the friend very well before rec
ommending to him 'She' Nothing. says
George Eliot, is more destructive TO friend
shin than difference of taste in jokes. But
a difference of taste In novels is nearly as apt
to poison affection. l have acquaintance to
whom / dare not mention Thackeray, others
wi h whom 'Huckleuerry Finn is tabooed
subject. and one who does not like Pick
wickn"
NINE. BERNHARDT travels in her own spe-
cial train. consisting Of two baggage cars.
one passenger car for the servants. assistants.
etc one paror car and two Pullman sleepers.
The first of the two last named cars is occu-
pied by the troupe proper. the last. the Fran
CISCO, being devoted to Nine. Bernhardt; her
son, Maurice BerShardt: her niece, Mile.
Sarah Bernhardt, daughter of Nine. Bern
hardts sister. Jeanne; Nine. Guerrard and
two maids. The troupe numbers thrGy-five
Grau and controlled by the general mana
ger, Charles Joliet, and is well disciplined off
as well as on the boards The leading spirAt
of the company has changed for the better in
appearance. Her cheeks are fuller, her eyes
brighter and her step frmer than they have
been for years.
IT is printed that recently when young
man asked Philips Brooks, the great Boston
clergyman, what he would do if he was aske
by the artist for his opinion OF q picture
which was not ccmmendable. the clerg, man
said: IL would saw just what do Is mothers
who bring their babies TO me to be admired.
always say. oh, that ~ baby" leaving the
moihsr convinced that it is the only baby Ia
the world. and myself utterly uncOmmitted."
This recalls a recently printed anerdote of a
Boston critic, who, at first night in q
theatre was expressing great contempt for
the play, when the author rushed up and
asked what he thought of it. my dear fell
low" said the critic. without an instant's
hesitation, "if / had written that play (
should he so proud of 1t there would he no
living With me-" Asked aftcrward to Justify
such an apparently outrageous lie, the critic
said: II only told him the truth. Ir ha
been fool enough to write that stuff / should
be fool enough to be unspeakably proud of it,"
A PITTsBURG electrician named Lowth
offers the world a boon in the shape of dumb
telephone. Surely there is wealth and place
in the gallery of fame for Inventor Lowth.
unless his Offering is false hope. The new
telephone. as described. has no transmitter
conversation being carried on by means of the
receiver alone. Attached to the receiving
tube, which is of different shape from that
generally in use, is n single wire, TO he end I
which is small and very sens tive appliance
which presses against the larynX and glands
of the necK, and as the jaws are moved D.
conversation the motion sends 'the words
spoken along the wire as or more distinctly
than they are sent by the telel hone now in
use. The story of the inventor as to how he
conceived the idea of his lie eDhone is most in
teresting He declares that some years ago,
in a small New England town, he saw two
deaf mutes carrying on a conversation by
placing the tips OF their ii gers each others
necks in the precise localities touched by the
sensitive part OF his invention,
IN answer to the old question, SIS ninety
nine hundred2" awriter in the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch saysi mo, OF course not; but
the year we call the ninety ninth is.really
the one nundredth. He, and others holding
his view, forget that by custom we call the
present year ~ the number OF years that
have passed away. We are now in the year
1888 of the Christian era. but we viii continue
to write II 1897 until 1883 years shall be COM
peted, which will b. on the last hour of
December 81, 81. We are now in The niue
tecnth century. but we will continue to write
1900 until the md of 1899. when we will saw
ninetee rSi..--giss are completed. And at
the end Of tDeN 1909 the twenti-
eth century will have been completed.
viii finish the TWEEN ieth century
The year 1919 will be 80 called after the year
that will have passed--as we now call this
1857, after the year that has pas sed aYav